>>96168967
>As did Arneson.
Nope, Arneson demanded 5% in royalties but the court result was that he was bought out at share price and got 2.5% like Gygax and it was capped at max 1.2 mil. Which is way more than he deserved considering he didn't do any of the work.
>Flat out lie.
t. knows nothing about Blackmoor.
>contrarian opinions.
There's nothing contrarian about shitting on WotC or their garbage.
>According to Mark Evanier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-jVZFjWRlU#t=14m30s
"Let's get the rights to the actual property instead of making a a knockoff of dungeons & dragons."
>He was too busy being blasted out of his mind on cocaine to have any real involvement.
Christy Marks disputes it saying they worked on the pitch together.
>are ones like Tomb of Horrors
Meanwhile if you actually go check instead of guess you'd find S4, T1-4, S3, B2, WG4, Q1, G1-2-3, and more all show up on lists from Dungeon mag, ENWorld, etc and they're all near the top.
>Aside from there being FBI files calling him a heavy drug abuser
You mean where REDACTED said bad things about him and his divorce lmao.
Witwer's interviews has him talking about how he was angling for a film adaptation with empires of imagination.
>he was burning through money
Except we know it was the Blumes who were throwing away money by every factual account and Gygax made the company huge amounts of money.
>Best sources I've found is that he had a net worth of about $5m
His personal royalties for a single year alone in 1979, not counting his large amount of shares or high wages, was $291,662 dollars or roughly 1.3 million a year accounting for inflation. TSR made 1.8 million (roughly 8 million in current dollars) in revenue in a single month that year mainly from his AD&D books.
This is from Peterson looking at financial statements from that time not guesswork from angry ex-wives.
>Steve Jackson
>Pondsmith
lmao

>>96027303
Roughly 1984 when Gygax lost control over TSR was when the official support for old school play started getting killed off more and more in everything that got published.
What little good came after were largely freelancer remnants who still remembered what was actually fun about D&D.
>>96027369
Runequest was also very old school D&D pulp in it's first editions. Pavis, Big Rubble, Griffin Mountain, Snake Pipe Hollow, Apple Lane etc.
Sandy Petersen used to argue in favor of that kind of pulp play and against the terrible kind of LARP shit that Runequest fell into in the mid-90s when Stafford's yes-men started running thing